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Semantic roles and the causative-anticausative alternation: evidence from French change-of-state verbs

open access: yesLinguistics
Change-of-state verbs are heterogeneous with respect to their occurrence in the causative-anticausative alternation. While some of them are never used as anticausatives (e.g., destroy), others seem to largely favor the anticausative form (e.g., wither ...
Heidinger Steffen, Huyghe Richard
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Valency patterns in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The present chapter reviews the valency patterns of Italian, with reference to argument coding and valency changing ...
CENNAMO, MICHELA
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Agentive Reading in the Middle: The Structure of Polish reflexiva tantum

open access: yesStudies in Polish Linguistics
Morphosyntactic marking connected with the Middle contexts, broadly speaking expressing the involvement and affectedness of the subject (Cotticelli Kurras and Rizza 2013, Inglese 2020), tends to give rise to characteristic Voice syncretism, i.e., the ...
Marcin R. Dadan
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The conceptualization of change of state events and the labile alternation in Spanish [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Las teorías sobre la conceptualización de los eventos de cambio de estado (cf. Haspelmath 1993) han tenido una enorme presencia en los estudios sobre la alternancia causativo-inacusativa a partir del trabajo de Levin y Rappaport Hovav (1995), tanto en ...
Vivanco, Margot
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On the role of syntactic locality in morphological processes : the case of (Greek) derived nominals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The paper is structured as follows. In section 2, I briefly summarize the facts on English and Greek nominalizations. In section 3, I discuss English nominal derivation in some detail.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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In search of causative structures in the root-based morphology : the case of Polish roz-/roze- causatives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Artykuł poświęcony jest zagadnieniu kauzatywizacji w modelu morfosyntaksy generatywnej opartej na rdzeniu wyrazowym. Procesy kauzatywizacji analizowane są na podstawie czasowników z morfemem roz-. W analizie postulowane jest oderwanie funkcji kauzatywnej
Malicka-Kleparska, Anna
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Getting the -ik: An anticausative structure in Kirundi

open access: yesToronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 2023
This paper discusses the morpheme -ik in the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62). Dom et al. (2018) put forth a Proto-Bantu 'neuter middle marker' following Kemmer's (1993) 'middle domain', from which a Kirundi -ik can clearly be derived. They find that derivations of this marker occur in anticausative, agentless passive, and passive constructions in various
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Impersonal middles in German [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
We develop an analysis of impersonal middles in German which capitalizes on the observed similarities between personal and impersonal middles, and on Lekakou’s (2005) treatment of the former as disposition ascriptions.
Pitteroff, Marcel, Lekakou, Marika
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